X-Received: by 2002:a0c:b913:: with SMTP id u19mr18250756qvf.60.1544018708772; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:05:08 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:aed:2a0c:: with SMTP id c12mr334086qtd.2.1544018708624; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:05:08 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!v55no6444704qtk.0!news-out.google.com!m21ni9381qta.0!nntp.google.com!v55no6444697qtk.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 06:05:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1035964397.942373@yasure> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.182.29.134; posting-account=JkRVjAoAAABnheaF4g-oiPeoVk5AzyIp NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.182.29.134 References: <1035964397.942373@yasure> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why do my rotary phones not ring? From: smoserx1@gmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:05:08 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 23 Xref: csiph.com comp.dcom.telecom.tech:354 On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 2:52:57 AM UTC-5, george wrote: > I have two old rotary phones that I purchased because I wanted that nice > distinctive ring. > But they don't. They work fine. Even nice that teh telco still accepts > pulse dialing... but they don't ring. I've tried multiple lines at > multiple places. NO RING. > This morning I stopped at a thrift store and bought a touchtone with real > bells. It rings. So why don't the rotaries? George this is a little late but many of the old rotary phones were set to = ring on party lines. If you have a 500 rotary look at the connections to t= he network block inside the phone. On the back side of the network there s= hould be 5 connectors labeled L2, G, L1, K, and A, respectively. The older= ringers had 4 wires, red, black, gray and red/gray. The newer ringers had= 2 wires, red and black. The other two were for the capacitor inside the n= etwork. The 2 wire ringers simply have the capacitor built into the ringer= itself. Anyway, if the black wire from the ringer is connected to the G t= erminal of the network the ringer is set for party line operation and will = not work in today's private lines. Move the black ringer wire from the G t= erminal to the L1 terminal and the ringer should operate. Back in the old = days before the modular connections the technician could make a party line = phone operate on a private line simply by wiring the green and yellow wires= together at the connecting block on the wall. Electrically it is the same= as moving the black ringer wire from G to L1. Give it a try.